These top-rated backup services make it easy to create online and local copies of important files so you can retrieve them if ...

Backing up your essential data is the only way to be sure it’s safe. And while there have been no major online storage disasters to date, it behooves you to maintain a local backup of your digital ...

Ata Amiri asked if using two separate backup program will interfere with incremental backups. An incremental backup copies only files that have been created or changed since the last backup. Using two ...

Yes, there is Time Machine, Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper!. All have their place and are terrific backup utilities, but it's also nice to see something new on the scene that adds a few tricks to ...

Here is a pattern I've noticed a lot of. Backup applications (such as Macrium Reflect) for Windows will backup a disk volume using hundreds of image files. Obviously, if you do need to restore, the ...

When that happens, the user can reinstall the OS and applications off the original disks. But replacing their data is likely to be expensive at best, perhaps impossible. Similarly, corrupted ...

Q. Following your column’s advice to always back up my hard disk proved to be a godsend. When my Macintosh’s hard drive failed, I was able to restore all of my data from my backup disks. Personally ...